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2020 Books of the Year: Industry picks

Q&Q asked reviewers, booksellers, and other industry folks to share a great book that was published in 2020. These are their choices. We Two Alone Jack Wang House of Anansi Press In a debut short-story collection ... Read More »

November 19, 2020

Daily Deal: ECW Press acquires Bob Kroll’s 19th-century family saga

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ECW Press's Jack David has acquired world rights to Bob Kroll's Winter Light. The 19th-century family saga is about a father’s love, as expressed through his 20-year quest across Canada and the U.S. to find ... Read More »

November 19, 2020

Daily Deals: Biblioasis acquires Judith McCormack novel

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Biblioasis publisher Dan Wells has acquired North American English rights to Judith McCormack’s The Singing Forest. The novel follows the life of a member of Stalin's police force who participates in atrocities in Belarus, and the ... Read More »

November 17, 2020

Daily Deals: Donna Bailey Nurse in two-book deal to HarperCollinsCanada

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HarperCollinsCanada has acquired two works of non-fiction by Donna Bailey Nurse: The Black Album (world rights, all languages) and an untitled memoir about her Jamaican-Canadian family (world rights excluding U.K., all languages). The Black Album is set ... Read More »

November 16, 2020

2020 Books of the Year: Editors’ picks

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The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power Desmond Cole Doubleday Canada Released in January, Desmond Cole’s scathing look at anti-Black racism in Canada anticipated the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter ... Read More »

November 16, 2020

Daily Deals: Strange Light acquires queer psychological thriller from Carrie Jenkins; Sharon Butala collection to Freehand

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Strange Light senior editor Haley Cullingham has bought Canada English rights to UBC Philosophy professor Carrie Jenkins’s debut novel Victoria Sees It, a queer psychological thriller about a Cambridge student whose roommate has gone missing. ... Read More »

November 12, 2020

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for debut short-story collection

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Seated on her living-room sofa with friends, Souvankham Thammavongsa found out she had won the $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize on Nov. 9 for her debut short-story collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). The ... Read More »

November 12, 2020

Cover Reveal: Celina Caesar-Chavannes’s leadership memoir Can You Hear Me Now?

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In 2019, member of Parliament Celina Caesar-Chavannes left the Liberal party to represent her riding of Whitby, Ontario, as an independent. In her leadership memoir Can You Hear Me Now?: How I Found My Voice ... Read More »

November 12, 2020

Daily Deals: Elaine Dewar’s COVID-19 investigation to Biblioasis

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World rights to investigative journalist Elaine Dewar’s Who Should We Blame: Investigating the Origin of the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years, a contemporary whodunnit separating facts from conspiracy theories featuring the untold stories of the ... Read More »

November 10, 2020

Daily Deal: Danny Ramadan novel to Penguin Canada

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Penguin Canada’s David Ross has acquired, as part of a two-book deal, in a pre-empt, Canadian English rights to award-winning Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker, and LGBTQ-refugee activist Danny Ramadan’s The Foghorn Echoes. The novel begins ... Read More »

November 9, 2020

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2020 Books of the Year: Industry picks

Daily Deal: ECW Press acquires Bob Kroll’s 19th-century family saga

Daily Deals: Biblioasis acquires Judith McCormack novel

Daily Deals: Donna Bailey Nurse in two-book deal to HarperCollinsCanada

2020 Books of the Year: Editors’ picks

Daily Deals: Strange Light acquires queer psychological thriller from Carrie Jenkins; Sharon Butala collection to Freehand

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for debut short-story collection

Cover Reveal: Celina Caesar-Chavannes’s leadership memoir Can You Hear Me Now?

Daily Deals: Elaine Dewar’s COVID-19 investigation to Biblioasis

Daily Deal: Danny Ramadan novel to Penguin Canada

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